<div dir="auto"><div><p dir="ltr">Thanks Dirk! I'll have to roll this into the protocol document I have. </p><p dir="ltr">Question, what do the A, B, D, E, and I stand for in the debug logs?</p>Chris, WI3W </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 07:59 Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>There is no "initial handshake" as such
for nodes at this level. You are not a node until you have
successfully logged in as a known entity to a node. Only at that
point does PC protocol happen - <b><u>if you are defined as a
node with that callsign</u></b> - on the node that you are
attempting to connect to. Otherwise you will be treated as a
user, given the contents of any MOTD file and sent a user prompt.<br>
<br>
So if one connects to a PC92 capable node; you have successfully
logged with user (+password if required); that username is a
callsign that is recognised as a node by the receiving node; you
are not locked out there (the default for some random node
callsign) - then this happens (GB7TLH-2 connecting to GB7DJK) as
shown from the receiving node's (GB7DJK) point of view:<br>
<br>
<font face="monospace">11:31:10 (chan) <- A GB7TLH-2 telnet<br>
11:31:10 (chan) -> B GB7TLH-2 0<br>
11:31:10 (chan) -> E GB7TLH-2 0<br>
<font color="#00ff00"><b>11:31:10 (chan) -> D GB7TLH-2
PC18^DXSpider Version: 1.57 Build: 569 Git: test/83fc0019[r]
pc9x^5457^</b></font><br>
11:31:10 (state) GB7TLH-2 channel func state 0 -> init<br>
<font color="#ff0000"><b>11:31:10 (chan) <- I GB7TLH-2
PC92^GB7TLH-2^41469^A^^5GB7DJK:2001,bc8,3b8c,200,,2^H99^</b></font><br>
11:31:10 (state) GB7TLH-2 channel func state init -> init92<br>
11:31:10 (*) DXPROT: Do pc9x set on GB7TLH-2<br>
<font color="#ff0000"><b>11:31:10 (chan) <- I GB7TLH-2
PC92^GB7TLH-2^41469.01^K^5GB7TLH-2:5457:536^4^1^H99^<br>
11:31:10 (chan) <- I GB7TLH-2 PC20^</b></font><br>
11:31:10 (*) GB7TLH-2 send_local_config: doing pc9x<br>
<font color="#00ff00"><b>11:31:10 (chan) -> D GB7TLH-2
PC92^GB7DJK^41469^A^^5GB7TLH-2:2a01,4f8,1c1b,c95c,,1^H99^<br>
11:31:10 (chan) -> D GB7TLH-2
PC92^GB7DJK^41469.01^K^5GB7DJK:5457:569^25^65^163.172.11.79^test/83fc0019[r]^H99^<br>
11:31:10 (chan) -> D GB7TLH-2 PC22^</b><br>
</font>11:31:10 (state) GB7TLH-2 channel func state init92
-> normal<br>
<br>
shortly followed by:<br>
<font color="#ff0000"><br>
<b>11:31:13 (chan) <- I GB7TLH-2 PC51^GB7DJK^GB7TLH-2^1^</b></font><br>
<font color="#00ff00"><b>11:31:13 (chan) -> D GB7TLH-2
PC51^GB7TLH-2^GB7DJK^0^</b><br>
</font></font><br>
Actual data transfer data <font color="#00ff00"><b>green</b> </font>=
GB7DJK (receiving node)<b> <font color="#ff0000">red</font> </b>=
GB7TLH-2 (connecting node).<br>
<br>
The stuff in black is normal logging on the receiving node
(GB7DJK) - and not passed across this connection. <br>
<br>
Connecting to an old style PC protocol node is much more verbose
but the PC18 -> PC20 -> PC22 pattern is the same. It just
has a big flurry of PC19/PC17 records in between these three
markers. The principle is the same.<br>
<br>
Dirk G1TLH <br>
<br>
On 08/03/2025 22:39, Rudy Bakalov via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I was wondering if anyone can
shed some light on what the initial handshake between two
cluster partners looks like. Presumably it is something like
this:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<ol dir="ltr">
<li>Cluster A connects to Cluster B.</li>
<li>Cluster B says "Login:"</li>
<li>Cluster A says "N2WQ-1"</li>
<li>What happens next?</li>
</ol>
<div dir="ltr">I have been trying to see
how this works by connecting to my cluster and providing a
SSID registered as a partner, but nothing happens after I
provide the SSID:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" style="max-width:800px"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">Meanwhile, I enabled
logging in Winsock to see the chatter between partners and
see something like this:<br>
<br>
<span></span><span></span>
<div>
<div> -> 22:14:10 N2WQ-1
PC61^21339.0^K0WHY^08-Mar-2025^2214Z^OK QSO Party:
Kay^K4SBZ^AE5E^135.129.119.21^H98^~</div>
<div><span style="color:var(--text-primary);background-color:var(--background-main)"> ->
22:14:11 ND4X PC61^21339.0^K0WHY^08-Mar-2025^2214Z^OK
QSO Party: Kay^K4SBZ^AE5E^135.129.119.21^H98^~</span></div>
<div> -> 22:14:11 EA7JXH
PC61^21339.0^K0WHY^08-Mar-2025^2214Z^OK QSO Party:
Kay^K4SBZ^AE5E^135.129.119.21^H97^~</div>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">So going back to my question
on the initial handshake, how do I get traffic going to show
PC61 messages?</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">Rudy N2WQ</div>
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